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Abdulwahab is a PhD student in Physical Activity Epidemiology, advised by Dr. Soren Brage at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of the Kuwaiti High Science Achiever PhD Scholarship by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences and the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was previously awarded a full Bachelor's and Master's Scholarship from the Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education. His interests lie in the analysis of accelerometer-measured physical activity data in different populations and related disease endpoints. He previously studied adolescent physical activity behavior in relation to mental well-being. His current research interest is in the analysis of physical activity behavior in the Arabian Gulf in relation to metabolic disease incidence.

My background is neuropsychology, and later, computational neuroscience. During my studies, I developed strong skills in applied data science and machine learning, as well as fundamental knowledge of neural computation. Currently, I am based in the Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, where our team is working on biomarker discovery for neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as on developing algorithms for more data-informed diagnostics in mental healthcare.